Conquering fear!
22 months ago
I know this sounds like a strange goal, but touching fish is my biggest phobia and I want to conquer it someday.
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visit guatemala
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16 people |
| 2. |
Go parasailing
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719 people |
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Spend a night in a castle
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10 people |
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bench press 135 lbs
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1 person |
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preach a sermon
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23 people |
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deliver a keynote at a conference
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4 people |
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paint an oil painting
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36 people |
| 8. |
touch a fish (a live one)
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3 people |
| 9. |
sail
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249 people |
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ride a dog sled
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13 people |
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Go on a safari
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732 people |
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pet a tiger
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197 people |
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pay off student loans
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376 people |
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visit Norway
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228 people |
| 15. |
bike the Trek Across Maine with my father
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1 person |
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hike the appalachian trail
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1,645 people |
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To spend a week in a convent
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2 people |
| 18. |
send my mother-in-law on her dream trip to Africa
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1 person |
| 19. |
build a house with habitat for humanity
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301 people |
| 20. |
own 20 acres of land
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2 people |
| 21. |
receive a "Best Professor" award
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1 person |
| 22. |
Go to Wimbledon, French open, Australian open and the US Open
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5 people |
| 23. |
climb a mountain >14,000 feet
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1 person |
| 24. |
take a pottery class
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359 people |
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publish an article that gets cited by at least one major scholar
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1 person |
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Get a tattoo
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20,259 people |
| 27. |
watch Katharine Hepburn's entire filmography
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2 people |
| 28. |
Attend the olympics.
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268 people |
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Go to an NFL game
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44 people |
| 30. |
Get my left split
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1 person |
| 31. |
raft down the Amazon
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4 people |
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live abroad for at least a year
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31 people |
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Visit Italy
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2,347 people |
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Get a PhD
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2,778 people |
| 35. |
take a photography course
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267 people |
| 36. |
learn catalan
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61 people |
| 37. |
learn Latin
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1,885 people |
| 38. |
visit Bolivia
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5 people |
| 39. |
give up junk food for one year
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1 person |
| 40. |
run a 10K
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953 people |
| 41. |
take bassoon lessons
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2 people |
| 42. |
build a home with no mortgage
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2 people |
| 43. |
donate $100,000 to a worthy charity.
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2 people |
| 44. |
learn italian
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5,723 people |
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learn french
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10,591 people |
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learn german
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4,529 people |
| 47. |
create a booklist and read every book on it
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60 people |
I know this sounds like a strange goal, but touching fish is my biggest phobia and I want to conquer it someday.
I’ve been on a sailboat once, but I really want to take a trip of at least a week on a sailboat
Applications are in to 9 different doctoral programs in Spanish… fingers crossed! It will be a long wait until the letters start coming in March